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Problem

On Windows T3 cannot run a single Muse turn, for two reasons. Both have to be fixed before one turn runs.

  1. T3 cannot start Muse. The Muse SDK spawns muse serve without a shell. On Windows Node then neither finds a bare muse through PATHEXT (spawn muse ENOENT) nor runs the muse.cmd launcher that Muse's installer puts on PATH (EINVAL: Node refuses .cmd files without a shell). Settings → Providers shows "Muse Code SDK could not read the model catalog", and no Muse thread can start. Pointing Binary path at the launcher's muse-bin-<version>.exe gets past this, but that file is replaced with each Muse update.
  2. Muse refuses the turn. Muse 1.4.3 accepts a turn/start workspaceRoots entry only as the verbatim form of the canonical path (\\?\C:\…, in the case and long names the disk uses). T3 sends the plain path, so Muse refuses the turn:
Invalid params: invalid turn/start workspaceRoots entry "C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Temp\MuseRootProbe": expected a canonical path (resolves to \\?\C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Temp\MuseRootProbe)

The second was found while testing #17151 on a Windows desktop, with Muse started from its exe. The first showed when Muse was enabled on that desktop in nightly 0.0.46-nightly.20261008.2849.

Change

  • museLaunch (packages/provider-muse/src/server/sdk.ts) gives the program that starts Muse. Off Windows it is the binary path, as before. On Windows it resolves the binary the way T3 resolves its other commands (PATH, PATHEXT): an .exe runs directly, and a .cmd or .bat runs under cmd.exe (/d /c <launcher>; /d skips AutoRun commands, which could write into Muse's stdout). Node quotes a launcher path with spaces, and a bare @ (echo off) goes before it: cmd /c drops the quotes from a command that starts with one and holds &, @, ^ or a parenthesis, and @ first keeps them, so every character inside stays literal. A path without spaces gets cmd's metacharacters escaped. createMuseSdkHostEffect, through which every Muse host starts (provider status, model list, turns, title generation), uses it.
  • museWorkspaceRoot (same file) gives the root that turn/start sends. Off Windows it returns the root unchanged. On Windows it returns the native realpath of the checkout in verbatim form (\\?\UNC\… for a share). It has to be the native call: FileSystem.realPath is Node's JS realpath, which keeps the case it was given and 8.3 names such as PROGRA~1, and neither is Muse's canonical form.
  • MuseAdapterV2 sends that root in turn/start only. session/start and the muse serve process keep the plain path: session/start accepts any form, and the muse.cmd launcher runs under cmd.exe, which cannot start in a \\?\ directory.
  • The Muse replay kit fills a recording's <workspace> the same way, so the recorded fixtures also replay on Windows. The recorder folds the verbatim root back into <workspace>, so a recording made on Windows stays portable, and it starts Muse with museLaunch, so it no longer needs T3_MUSE_BIN on Windows.

Scope and approval

This is a small, focused fix for an obvious bug, so it comes without a prior issue: Muse, added in #17082, cannot run a single turn on Windows. The two parts above are that one problem: without the first, Muse never starts; without the second, it refuses every turn. The change is limited to how T3 starts Muse on Windows and the root its adapter sends in turn/start there, plus the Muse replay kit and recorder so they work there too. Other platforms start Muse and send exactly what they did before.

Verification

Windows 11, Muse 1.4.3, a real Meta subscription.

Starting Muse. Node 24, spawning without a shell as the SDK does:

Command Result
muse ENOENT
…\Programs\muse\muse.cmd EINVAL
cmd.exe /d /c …\Programs\muse\muse.cmd serve --disable-shell --disable-write --no-session-log, through the SDK's spawnMspConnection initialize answered in 0.9 s, model/list returned the catalog, and closing left no Muse process behind

cmd.exe was also given a stand-in launcher built like Muse's own muse.cmd (it starts PowerShell with -File "%~dp0…" and %*), spawned as the SDK spawns, in 13 folders: plain, with space, with space (x), R&D, a@b^c, paren(x), R&D Team, a@b c, a^b c, R and D&x y, 100% sure, bang! dir and mixed (R&D) @ ^x. Each started with its arguments intact. Before 39fb72a, the five with spaces and &, @ or ^ failed (cmd ran …\R and stopped); call instead of @ breaks on ^, and delayed expansion on !.

On the installed nightly (2849), with Muse enabled and the default binary path, Settings show "Muse Code SDK could not read the model catalog" and the server trace has spawn muse ENOENT.

What Muse accepts. A read-only muse serve (no shell, no writes) was probed directly, in a directory named MuseRootProbe:

Request Root sent Result
session/start verbatim canonical accepted
session/start plain, lower case accepted
turn/start plain rejected with the error above
turn/start verbatim, lower case rejected with the same error
turn/start verbatim native canonical accepted, and the turn completed

End to end. The Muse recorder runs the real orchestrator and MuseAdapterV2 against a live muse serve, then replays the recording through the fixture's assertions before writing it:

T3_MUSE_BIN=<Muse's muse-bin exe> node scripts/record-muse-msp-replay-fixture.ts --scenario simple --out <temp file>
  • With main's adapter, the turn fails to start: orchestration V2 provider turn start failed.
  • With this branch, the turn completes (terminal: completed, 27 s), the replay passes, and every workspace root in the recording is <workspace>.
  • With this branch and no T3_MUSE_BIN, the recorder starts Muse through muse.cmd and cmd.exe, as T3 now does: the turn completes (45 s), the replay passes, and the recording keeps only Muse's own arguments (serve --trust-workspace --disable-sandbox). main's recorder stops at once there: spawnSync muse ENOENT.

Tests, on Windows:

  • Before refactor(provider-muse): move Muse Code into its own provider package #17331 moved the Muse files, vp test run src/provider/museSdk.test.ts src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/MuseAdapterV2.test.ts: 38 passed. The new tests cover the verbatim form for a drive and for a share; the case fix, where a lower-cased temp directory comes back in its true case (FileSystem.realPath fails this test); the unchanged root off Windows; and an adapter that sends the verbatim root in turn/start while it starts Muse in the plain path.
  • The 5 Muse replay fixtures in OrchestratorReplayFixtures.integration.test.ts pass.
  • After merging main (a6d12e4), where these tests now live in provider-muse's sdk.test.ts and adapter.test.ts: the whole provider-muse suite (77) and the 5 Muse replay fixtures pass on Windows, and tsc --noEmit is clean for apps/server and provider-muse.
  • With museLaunch (c7857f8): the whole provider-muse suite (80) and the 5 Muse replay fixtures pass. The new tests cover the launch rules (an exe directly; a launcher under cmd.exe, with and without spaces in its path and with cmd's metacharacters; cmd.exe found without ComSpec; an unresolved binary passed through; nothing resolved off Windows) and that createMuseSdkHostEffect starts Muse's launcher through cmd.exe, a test that fails without the change.
  • With the @ (39fb72a): the whole provider-muse suite (81) and the 5 Muse replay fixtures pass. A new Windows test runs a real .cmd launcher from a folder named R&D Team (x) @ ^y through cmd.exe, spawned as the SDK spawns; it fails without the @.
  • tsc --noEmit in apps/server and provider-muse; vp lint and vp fmt on the changed files.

Known limit: cmd expands %NAME% for a defined variable even inside the quotes, so a launcher under a folder named, say, lit %TEMP% dir does not start. A lone % and an undefined name are left alone (100% sure, 50% off 20% more and undef %NO_SUCH_VAR_T3% dir start). Avoiding it needs verbatim arguments, which the SDK does not take, or delayed expansion, which strips ! from the launcher's own %~dp0 line instead (bang! dir then fails).

Not checked: a workspace on a network share against live Muse; macOS or Linux live, where Muse starts and the root is passed through unchanged; whether a console window shows while Muse runs under the desktop app. The SDK starts muse serve without windowsHide (meta-models/muse-code-sdk#34; SDK 1.4.4 sets it), and the desktop app's server has no console of its own. Raising the SDK would be a separate change.

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Muse 1.4.3 accepts a turn/start workspaceRoots entry only as the verbatim
form of the canonical path (\?\C:\..., in the disk's case and long names),
so every Windows turn failed with "expected a canonical path". Send that
form in turn/start, resolved with the native realpath: FileSystem.realPath
is Node's JS realpath, which keeps the given case and 8.3 names.
session/start and the muse serve process keep the plain path, since
session/start accepts any form and muse.cmd runs under cmd.exe, which
cannot start in a verbatim directory.

The Muse replay kit fills <workspace> the same way, so the fixtures replay
on Windows, and the recorder folds a verbatim root back into <workspace>.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This is a focused Windows-specific Muse path-handling fix with localized runtime impact and dedicated tests. Human review is warranted because the production SDK file also broadens a file-level static-analysis diagnostic suppression.

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Muse startup resolves launcher commands on Windows. Muse turn requests use resolved workspace roots, and replay fixtures use Muse-specific workspace materialization and path normalization.

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Muse Windows handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Resolve Muse launches and workspace roots
packages/provider-muse/src/server/sdk.ts, packages/provider-muse/src/server/sdk.test.ts, packages/provider-muse/src/testing.ts
Adds launch configuration and Windows executable and launcher resolution. Adds Windows verbatim workspace-root handling, with tests and testing-module exports.
Use Muse workspace roots for turns
packages/provider-muse/src/server/adapter.ts, packages/provider-muse/src/server/adapter.test.ts
The adapter sends the resolved Muse workspace root in turn/start. The Windows test checks that turn/start receives the verbatim workspace root while the host process receives the plain working-directory path.
Materialize Muse replay workspaces
apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/MuseAdapterV2.testkit.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/testkit/OrchestratorReplayFixtures.integration.test.ts, apps/server/scripts/record-muse-msp-replay-fixture.ts
Adds and uses a Muse-specific replay materializer. The recorder resolves Muse launch commands, normalizes the Muse workspace root, and uses the materializer to verify replay transcripts.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 39fb7

Muse may fail to start on Windows when its launcher is installed in a path containing a literal percent-delimited name. This narrow case should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merging.

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The change affects 2 systems.

Changed systems: packages/provider-muse, apps/server

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  • observed — packages/provider-muse (library) was modified; 5 changed files map to changed impact.
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  • observed — Modified behavior in apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/MuseAdapterV2.testkit.ts: The import block adds museWorkspaceRoot and materializeReplayTranscriptWorkspace, used to prepare workspace paths in replay transcripts.
  • observed — Modified behavior in apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/MuseAdapterV2.testkit.ts: Adds materializeMuseReplayWorkspace, which resolves the workspace’s canonical path and materializes the transcript against it. It separately materializes against museWorkspaceRoot(canonical) and substitutes those entries only where the original entry is an outbound turn/start; other entries remain from the canonical-path materialization.
  • observed — Modified behavior in apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/testkit/OrchestratorReplayFixtures.integration.test.ts: The Muse testkit import now includes materializeMuseReplayWorkspace alongside the replay harness.
  • observed — Modified behavior in apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/testkit/OrchestratorReplayFixtures.integration.test.ts: Muse replay now uses materializeMuseReplayWorkspace with the replay transcript and workspace. This replaces the prior generic materialization against fs.realPath(workspace); Codex retains its generic materialization branch, while other providers still receive the replay transcript unchanged.
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ntindle and others added 2 commits October 8, 2026 05:42
Keep the file-level diagnostics as they were and allow the native realpath import on its own line, as auth and cloud code do for node:crypto.

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main moved Muse Code into packages/provider-muse (pingdotgg#17331) and its replay
helpers into the provider packages. This branch's Windows root follows
them: museWorkspaceRoot lives in provider-muse's sdk.ts, and the
provider-muse testing entry exports it for the replay testkit and the
fixture recorder.

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Comment thread packages/provider-muse/src/server/sdk.ts
When the native realpath fails, museWorkspaceRoot fell back to the path as
given. A root written with `/` became `\?\C:/repo`, but a verbatim path
takes `/` literally, so the fallback now uses Windows separators.

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On Windows T3 could not start Muse at all. The Muse SDK spawns without a
shell, so Node neither finds a bare `muse` with PATHEXT (ENOENT) nor runs
the `muse.cmd` launcher Muse's installer puts on PATH (EINVAL). Settings
showed "Muse Code SDK could not read the model catalog" and no thread could
start, before any turn reached the workspace root fixed earlier here.

museLaunch resolves the binary the way T3 resolves other commands and runs
a `.cmd` or `.bat` under cmd.exe; createMuseSdkHostEffect starts every Muse
host through it. The fixture recorder starts Muse the same way, so it no
longer needs T3_MUSE_BIN on Windows.

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cmd /c drops the quotes from a command that starts with one and holds `&`,
`@`, `^` or a parenthesis, so a launcher under a folder such as
`C:\Users\R&D Team` split at the `&` and Muse did not start. A bare `@`
(echo off) now comes first, so the quoted path keeps its quotes and cmd
takes every character in it literally. A path without spaces is still
caret-escaped, as before.

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I independently reproduced both issues on Windows with Muse Code 1.4.4-R5419.1:

  • With the default muse binary path, T3 shows “Muse Code SDK could not read the model catalog.” Direct SDK spawning fails with spawn muse ENOENT.
  • Pointing T3 at the native Muse executable loads the catalog, but starting a turn fails because workspaceRoots contains F:\. Muse requires \\?\F:\.

As a temporary workaround, I (my agent) configured T3 to use a small local Windows launcher. It finds the installed Muse executable and canonicalizes turn/start.workspaceRoots using GetFinalPathNameByHandleW before forwarding the request.

Using T3’s bundled Muse SDK, the original request reproduced the rejection. Through the launcher, the same request was accepted. I interrupted the test turn immediately afterward. Normal folder paths and already canonical paths also passed.

Happy to test this PR on my Windows setup if that would help get it merged.

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